LESSECHO(1)                 General Commands Manual                LESSECHO(1)



[1mNAME[0m
       lessecho - expand metacharacters

[1mSYNOPSIS[0m
       [1mlessecho [4m[22m[-ox][24m [4m[-cx][24m [4m[-pn][24m [4m[-dn][24m [4m[-mx][24m [4m[-nn][24m [4m[-ex][24m [4m[-a][24m [4mfile[24m [4m...[0m

[1mDESCRIPTION[0m
       [4mlessecho[24m  is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out-
       put.  But any metacharacter in the output is preceded  by  an  "escape"
       character, which by default is a backslash.

[1mOPTIONS[0m
       A summary of options is included below.

       [1m-ex    [22mSpecifies  "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for
              metachars.  If x is "-", no escape char is  used  and  arguments
              containing metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.

       [1m-ox    [22mSpecifies  "x",  rather  than double-quote, to be the open quote
              character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.

       [1m-cx    [22mSpecifies "x" to be the close quote character.

       [1m-pn    [22mSpecifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

       [1m-dn    [22mSpecifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.

       [1m-mx    [22mSpecifies "x" to be a metachar.  By default, no  characters  are
              considered metachars.

       [1m-nn    [22mSpecifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.

       [1m-fn    [22mSpecifies  "n"  to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte-
              ger.

       [1m-a     [22mSpecifies that all arguments are to be quoted.  The  default  is
              that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted

[1mSEE ALSO[0m
       less(1)

[1mAUTHOR[0m
       This  manual  page  was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.



                           Version 487: 25 Oct 2016                LESSECHO(1)
